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Educational toys today are really tepid about telling a kid he's wrong. I heard a VTech toy of some sort respond to a wrong answer with something like "Great job, try again!"

Man, I still drop this line as a bad joke into conversations sometimes. I remember it saying "That is incorrect" (it sounded so final!), "The correct spelling of <WORD> is ...". The way that it would say each word was always preceded by a slight pause and looking back now I'd imagine it was due to having to find the word data and load it. Back then I simply thought the damn thing was mocking me. I loved it. Mine had a flat face though, so it must have been a later model.

P-O-T-S-CHHCKUMPH-A-T-O Potato.. top notch.

I cant look at a potato without that machines voice in my head

I can’t think about the word for a small land mass in the ocean without saying “spell ISLE meaning island”

Which now that I typed it up looks like it should be pronounced “is-Lee”